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ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?

ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?

Read the situation below and those on the next few pages. Then, decide if each is an example of peer pressure or peer influence and select your answer. Next, think about how the person being pressured might feel. Finally, decide what you would do in the situation.

Situation 1

Letisha has a sister who is in the grade ahead of her. Letisha likes it when her sister lets her hang out with her and her friends because at their school it's considered pretty cool to be seen with kids older than you. One afternoon Letisha is at home with the older girls. There are no adults around. The older girls let Letisha hang out with them. The next thing she knows, they are all vaping. One of the girls holds a vape in front of Letisha and offers her to try it. Letisha shakes her head "no," but the girl is insistent. The other girls, including Letisha's sister, join in encouraging her to try it.


This situation is an example of: __________.